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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Do we have reason to believe there is yet undiscovered chemistry to support this notion of better batteries?
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Batteries are chemistry, and burning gasoline in an IC engine is chemistry. So is there IN PRINCIPLE any reason a "battery" couldn't store as much energy in some reversible reaction as could be stored in an equal weight of gasoline? Then figure the manifold inefficiencies of the burning gasoline to motive power conversion process against electic motors, it does seem as though it should be possible.